Le colonel Chabert (1943)

Director:

René Le Hénaff

Writers:

Honoré de Balzac (short story), Pierre Benoît (adaptation),

Stars:

Raimu, Marie Bell, Jacques Baumer

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Raimu	...	Le colonel Hyacinthe Chabert
Marie Bell	...	La comtesse Rosine Ferraud (as Marie Bell de la Comédie Française)
Jacques Baumer	...	Delbecq
Aimé Clariond	...	Maître Derville (as Aimé Clariond de la Comédie Française)
Pierre Alcover	...	Le directeur de l'asile (as Alcover)
Roger Blin	...	Un clerc
Jacques Charon	...	Un clerc (as Jacques Charon de la Comédie Française)
Jo Dervo	...	(as Dervos)
Eddy Debray	...	(as Debray)
Maurice Devienne	...	(as Devienne)
René Lacourt	...	(as Lacourt)
Pierre Lecocq	...	(as Lecocq)
René Stern
Paul Temps
André Varennes

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

based on novel

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

1946 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Colonel Chabert

Filming Locations:

Studios de Saint-Maurice, Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne, France

Company Credits

Production Co:

Compagnie Commerciale Française Cinématographique (CCFC)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

102 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Pierre Alcover's last film.

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Quotes

Le colonel Jacinthe Chabert aka Jacinthe 'the beggar': The war is a terrible thing.
Delbecq: Yes, but someone has to defend the fatherland.
Le colonel Jacinthe Chabert aka Jacinthe 'the beggar': Monsieur, I am an old soldier and I think! After everything that I've seen, I shall say that the word "patriotism" means nothing against the word "humanism".

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Connections

Version of Out of the Depths (1920)

User Reviews

Once upon a time there was Raimu. This was long before Depardieu.

The best movie adaptations from novels by one of the greatest writers of all times are still, as I see it, BBC's Cousin Bette (1972), Albicocco's La Fille aux Yeux d'Or (1961) and those silent, nearly forgotten pioneering efforts such as L'Herbier's L'Homme du Large (1920) and Epstein's L'Auberge Rouge (1923). But this one is quite interesting, although Raimu, quite frankly, did not possess an ideal physique du rôle for the Balzac character. Most certainly, he did reach pathos, though. Marie Bell is a bitchy, cousine Bette-like villain. Fine photography, fine score by Louis Beydts, fine sets, fine mise-en-scène.